Digital MSK solutions are proving effective for upstream care because that’s where they start to intervene; engaging people with exercise therapy, education and nonaddictive pain relief right at the onset of their pain.
While high-acuity options must remain for those that need stronger interventions, millions more could be benefiting from access to low-acuity or minimal interventions.
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Given the increased use — and misuse — of opioid medications, it is imperative that we continue to expand access to drug-free pain treatment options.
There is some acknowledgment by employers of their pain problem, but this awareness is not universal. This demonstrates a clear need for solutions that tackle not only health care costs, but absenteeism, the impact to presenteeism, and overall productivity.
AppliedVR released study results demonstrating VR’s ability to help patients suffering from chronic low back pain. The technology was able to increase participants' brain coherence and help them achieve a slower breathing rate — two metrics associated with reduced pain.
Chronic pain, an enduring concern for many older adults, is no longer confined to the traditional realm of pharmaceuticals. While traditional pain management methods like medication were once the go-to approach, alternative therapies are emerging as a viable and holistic approach to addressing this issue.
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I look at non-pharmacological approaches like digital therapeutics as having the potential to give someone like me living with chronic pain everything I need to make a healthy recovery: access to digital treatments and clinicians, to community, coaching, and navigation services.
Eli Lilly is paying $40 million up front for rights to a Confo Therapeutics drug in Phase 1 testing as a potential treatment for neuropathic pain. Confo develops drugs that target G-protein coupled receptors.
The future towards the safer treatment of pain will come as biopharma, and investor communities appreciate the significant opportunities in supporting scientifically rigorous and clinically validated lead assets for the safer treatment of pain.
Override provides chronic pain patients with a care team that includes a pain physician, a physical therapist, a psychologist and a coach. The company has received $3.5 million in seed funding and has acquired Take Courage Coaching.
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Our nation is severely lacking in its approach to chronic pain. Nobody should ever resign themselves to forever experiencing pain and end their life or the lives of others.
More restrictive opioid prescribing guidelines were put in place in a rightful effort to stop a devastating crisis. But this sudden and dramatic change negatively impacted chronic pain patients who were managing their pain through prescription opioids given few other effective options.
Neuralace Medical, a San Diego-based startup, recently got FDA clearance for a non-invasive device to treat chronic pain. It works by stimulating nerve fibers that have been damaged in a traumatic injury.
Earlier this year, AppliedVR shared results of a pivotal study that it plans to submit to the FDA. It received a breakthrough device designation last year to use its VR platform to treat fibromyalgia and lower back pain.
The Los Angeles-based startup received a breakthrough device designation from the FDA for using VR to manage chronic pain. It recently published the results of a 92-person virtual trial testing VR for pain management at home.